Improvement in vessels for oil and other liquids



UNITED STATES GEORGE W. BANKER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

IMPROVEMENT'IN VESSELS FOR OIL AND OTHER LIQUIDS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 116,393, dated June 27, 1871.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE W. BANKER, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented an Improved Method of Combining a Metal Oan or Fluid-Holding Vessel With an Inclosing-Case or BOX, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawing forming a part of the same.

The said drawing is a longitudinal section of my combined can and case.

A is a metal can or fluid-holding vessel, made in the usual manner, of any suitable material. B is a wooden case or box into which the can A fits snugly. The top of this case may have an opening through which the nozzle of the can projects for convenience of lling and emptying the can without removing the cover. Across the top of the can is placed a metal band, b, which is made fast to the can by soldering or brazing. This band must belong enough to pass, on either side of the can, out through openings in the side of the case and allow the ends to be lapped together when bent around over upon the top of the case.

In the process of manufacturing this combined can and ease the band b is, While straight, first to be soldered to the can, the ends standing out straight on either side. Two of the sides of the wooden case being prepared, having the openings o made in them, are placed in position, one against each side of the can, by passing the ends ofthe band b through the respective openings. The remaining sides of the case are then placed in position and the Whole,with the bottom and cover, screwed or otherwise securely fastened together. The ends of the band are then bent around over upon the top of thecover, lapped, and soldered together, as shown in the drawing.

NOW, it will, be evident that when thusvconstructed and combined the can cannot be removed from the case except by either cutting or breaking away the Wood over the openings b, or by first severing the metal band at some point outside of the case, removing the cover, and then either cutting in two the band on both sides of the can, or by detachin g the sides of the case from each other-in other words, by breaking to pieces or dismembering the case.

The combined can and case are thus rendered practically a single package, it having been declared and approved as such by the Treasury Department ofthe United States under the provisions of our revenue laws.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

A new manufacture, consisting' of the can A, the case B, and the band b, when constructed and combined in the manner and by the method herein described.

GEO. W. BAN KER.

Witnesses:

J. P. FITCH, WM. C. REDDY. 

